Speaking of the chaos of the Wa Kingdom, isn't it all his scourge?

At this time, the Great Chaos of the Japanese Kingdom, which lasted for eight years, made countless famous generals fall, turned countless samurai into dry bones, and made countless wealthy families into ruins, finally came to an end. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But there was no winner.

Whether it was the Tokugawa shogunate, the Shimazu group in Kamiraku, or the Date group that took advantage of the fire, none of them were victors, and after a large-scale melee that lasted for eight years, their only gain was to divide the Wa kingdom into three parts.

The boundary of the Shimazu family's control area is in Osaka, the Kyoto line, and they got Kyoto, but Emperor Nakagomon let General Dog snatch it away in advance, so the Shimadzu group supported Emperor Naohito's younger brother, Prince Kanin Palace, who had just learned to walk, as emperor. Anyway, that's what happened, and it just meant that, and at this time, the emperor's prestige had long since deteriorated, and even in relatively open areas such as Nagasaki, there had already begun to appear holy cult believers. After all, the common people of the Japanese country are not stupid, they can all believe in God, of course, they don't care about believing in Yang Feng, it is easier to believe in Yang Feng, the two sides are at least culturally closer, Shinto is a polytheistic system, and the holy religion is also a polytheistic system, which is always easier to be accepted by the Japanese people than God.

And the dog shogun continued to control the Emperor Nakagomon.

The Tokugawa shogunate's control area was dominated by the two plains of Nagoya and Edo, and basically the central part of the island of Honshu was his, especially since he also had a naval army, with more than a dozen frigates eliminated by the Ming army and six cruisers eliminated by the same Ming army, so including Shikoku Island and Sado Island Kanayama were still under the control of the shogunate. However, because he lost the Iwami Silver Pit and the commercial center of Osaka, the loss of strength is still quite large, and at present, relying on the concerted efforts of those daimyo of the Tokugawa family, it is just barely able to protect himself, anyway, it is completely impossible to reclean the old rivers and mountains.

There is still the Date family, who took advantage of the fire to rob.

They also supported an emperor, and they were even more ruthless, they brutally pulled out Emperor Lingyuan, who had resigned as a monk, that is, Emperor Higashiyama's father, Emperor Higashigomon, and his grandfather, as decorations, and then contentedly continued to conquer the entire north, and eventually became the master of the northern part of Honshu Island, and currently controls the part from Koriyama Niigata to the north.

But Hokkaido is not included.

It had already been drawn on the map of the Ming Dynasty, including Sakhalin Island, which was part of the Ming Heishui Province, and the Matsumae family, the only prince of the Wa Kingdom in Hokkaido, was also subordinated to the Ming Dynasty and was named the Duke of the Outer Domain.

As for the victors of this war......

Just look at how popular the Japanese slaves in the Ming Dynasty were.

Those Ming merchants with various identities and backgrounds wandered among the forces of all sides like the Japanese merchants in the original history of Chinese warlords during the melee, like blood-sucking grasshoppers, sucking the blood of this close neighbor. They sold the latter everything they needed, arms, medicines, uniforms, and even intelligence, and then took gold, silver, copper, and, of course, a large number of slaves, and did everything in their power to keep their dreams of domination. When one side wants to succeed, they deliberately create trouble for them, and at the same time strengthen their opponents, or even simply hire thugs to make trouble on their turf, and then let the Ming warships go over to demonstrate, and when the other side turns over and gains the upper hand, immediately change the target of support.

Anyway, this game is actually very simple.

After all, in the era of warlord melee in Chinese history, the great powers and countries, including the Wa State, played this game badly.

There is the great mentor of His Majesty the Emperor, Jinyiwei, the General Staff, the Cabinet, the Taichang Temple and other systems who do this work, they are all very high-end, plus those profiteers who have no bottom line, especially those slave traders, have completely turned the Wa Kingdom into their playground, and used their sinister minds to firmly press the country into the mud and continue to rot.

Eight years, a whole eight years of war.

In the past eight years, the country has lost at least a quarter of its population, of course, not only dead and wounded, in fact, a large part of it has been sold as slaves to the Ming Dynasty, the official sale of prisoners of war, bandits or bandits colluded with officials and bandits to capture civilians and sell, merchants abduct and sell, and even in the later period because they really can't stand this kind of suffering days, there are a large number of Japanese people who ran to those slave traders to sell themselves.

Even if they want to chop the eggs, they will admit it!

At least in Daming, being a slave can still eat enough without worrying about starvation! Especially those young and beautiful girls, they will do whatever it takes to board those merchant ships that go to Daming, even if they go to Daming to be ten thousand people to ride, the most terrifying thing is that there are still Japanese people crowded on small fishing boats, willing to risk the danger of being buried in the sea to play drifting across the Korean Strait, and run to Busan to sell themselves.

In other words, this has become a scene in Busan.

It is not uncommon for a battered fishing boat to be washed ashore by the waves, and then a large number of dying Japanese people on board pounce out, hugging any locals they meet, crying and shouting to be sold into slavery, and even some young women shamelessly take off their clothes to show that they can taste it.

In a word......

In short, the Wa Kingdom at this time is also very embarrassing.

"Your Majesty, at this time, taking the Wa Kingdom is like taking something from a bag, why not take advantage of this to return to the king?"

Lu You said cautiously.

Emperor Yang's strategy of tossing the Wa State is understood by everyone, it is nothing more than to let them exhaust their vitality in the civil war, and then they will naturally get ripe and fall, at present, the entire East has almost all become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and there is only one Wa State left, and the Wa State and the Ming Dynasty are so close to each other, the steam warship can sail to Nagasaki in less than three days, such a country has no other option than annexation, in fact, the military has already made a plan to annex the Wa State, Just wait for the emperor's words to immediately turn this small broken country into a part of the Ming Dynasty.

"No, keep it up!"

Yang Feng said lightly.

What does he want to do? This country has no value, the only valuable thing is nothing more than that bit of gold and silver, Sado Jinshan Ishimi silver pit, but he has the Golden State in hand and there is no shortage of gold and silver, the North Golden State is the world's largest silver mine, and then the Golden State Company is also ready to develop the gold mine in the West Golden State, that is, the golden mile of Kalgoorli, plus the gold panning in Yinzhou is also about to begin, and many gold mines and silver mines have been developed in the country, so it can be said that the gold and silver of the Wa Kingdom are not attractive.

The value of the Wa Kingdom lies in the slaves.

The Japanese slaves are their most valuable thing.

But if it is returned to the Ming Dynasty, although it is also possible to buy and sell slaves, it is impossible to be as unscrupulous as now, the second-class citizens of the subject country can indeed be slaves, but they cannot be arrested by force, after all, it is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, even the first-class citizens must try to abide by the law, even if it is a minimum. Therefore, it can only be a debt slave or a slave who is sold by the government of the subject country after committing a crime, simply put, it must be paid, and the price is not cheap, and even in terms of treatment, there are special features, in other words, it is a bit like the original domestic slave rather than a pure slave. But these Japanese slaves are different, the price is as cheap as giving away for free, a smoothbore gun can be exchanged for a strong laborer, and in the future, the slave owner will fight and kill if he wants, where can I find such a good slave.

Then after annexing the Japanese state, it is impossible to think about this, after all, you will have to ask for face in the future.

Now there is a shortage of slaves in the Ming Dynasty.

There was a shortage of slaves.

Although the Ming army continued to arrest in various places, there was still a large shortage of slaves, and now it can be said that they are becoming more and more versatile, and more importantly, the life span of slaves is usually very short, especially those in textile factories, and it is rare to be able to survive ten years. And as long as the Ming is a slave, there will be no slaves for the next generation of slaves, these slaves will not breed more slaves for the Ming Dynasty, and now after the initial expansion period, the number of new slaves is already less than the number of dead.

In other words, the number of Ming slaves is declining

After all, in the past, it was open to grasp in the South Seas, and in the name of war, you could catch as much as you wanted, and the price of slaves sold by the army was pitifully low, and at this time there was no war, in addition to plundering on the Arab battlefield, there were also purchases from Africa and India, and the most important source was left, that is, the Japanese state, and even the Japanese slaves accounted for more than half of the new slaves, if the Japanese country was annexed, those slave traders would cry, and the Ming economy would also be seriously affected, at least the cost of buying slaves from those mines, factories and plantations would increase significantly.

So even if it is at his fingertips, he can't ask for the Wa Kingdom.

The best way for this country to deal with it is to let it maintain its current pattern, and then continue to be outside the Ming system, acting as a source of cheap slaves for the Ming Dynasty, even if the Japanese themselves do not sell it, they can also organize an armed slave capture team to directly land on the Japanese to capture. Anyway, it's nothing more than a pirate, and there is no need for Han Chinese, let those slave traders spend their own money to hire second-class citizens in the subject countries of the South Seas, and then they play the role of pirates, learn the tactics of the Japanese invaders, go to the coast of the Japanese country to raid and plunder, break through the villages and capture everyone.

It's very simple, the terrain of the Wa Kingdom is like that, and there is nowhere to hide.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with the Ming government, that is, piracy is also a felony in Daming, and it is also to hang on a rope and hang yourself, at most you catch them and cut off their heads, we will not use extraterritoriality, can Daming still be responsible for the pirates of your country? It doesn't make sense at all!

In this way, after a few decades, there will basically be few people in the Wa Kingdom, and their value will be completely squeezed out at that time, and it will not be too late to annex them.

If you want to become a member of the Ming Dynasty, it's not impossible, but you have to lose weight first. (To be continued.) )